the collapsar model

[taylordnz]

ive just read about it in the astronomy magazine but does anyone know more in depth about it?

[Nommos Prime (Dogon)]

Looks pretty sound to me.
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v34n2/aas200/414.htm

The theory explains how those "high energy jets" seen in Hubble photos of collapsed stars function.

[meteor]

The collapsar model explains the GRB like an explossion of a very massive star, a hypernova. The other explanation for GRB is the collission of two neutron stars